Energy in the Eastern Mediterranean: The New Frontier with Thanos Davelis

Monday, November 25, 2024
1:00PM Eastern Time

The discovery of natural gas off the shores of Israel and Cyprus has transformed the eastern Mediterranean into a critical energy hub. It has also seen unprecedented cooperation (the 3+1 framework of Greece, Cyprus, Israel and the United States, and the Eastern Mediterranean Gas Forum in particular), which has magnified the region’s role. Great projects, including the Great Sea Interconnector, the IMEC corridor, and the Amalthea Initiative, make the region a nexus of innovation and collaboration. How did this transformation unfold? What does it foretell? What might impede its potential?

Thanos Davelis is director of public affairs at the Hellenic American Leadership Council and the host of “The Greek Current,” a daily podcast focusing on Greece, Cyprus and the broader Eastern Mediterranean.  He holds a B.A. from Loyola University in Chicago.

Israel Insider with Ashley Perry

Wednesday, November 27, 2024
3:00PM Eastern Time

How will the International Criminal Court's decision to issue an arrest warrant for Prime Minister Netanyahu affect Israel’s diplomacy and its seven-front war?

Ashley Perry is an advisor to the Middle East Forum’s Israel office. He served as adviser to Israel's minister of foreign affairs and deputy prime minister in 2009-15, and has also worked with Israel's Ministers of Intelligence, Agriculture and Rural Development, Energy, Water and Infrastructure, Defense, Tourism, Internal Security, and Immigrant Absorption and as an advisor to The Negev Forum. Originally from the U.K., he moved to Israel in 2001. He holds a B.A. from University College London and an M.A. from Reichman University (IDC Herzliya).

The Middle East Forum, an activist think tank, deals with the Middle East, Islamism, U.S. foreign policy, and related topics, urging bold measures to protect Americans and their allies. Pursuing its goals via intellectual and operational means, the Forum recurrently has policy ideas adopted by the U.S. government.